Moving Eclipse Workspace from ~ to new directory?

Question

Okay, so I made a mistake of setting my home directory (~, a.k.a. /home/user) to be my workspace location on my RHEL6 box.

I want to change my workspace to ~/workspace. However, I can't seem to do this by copying files. For some background, the project I am currently working on and have fully set up under the ~ workspace, has all source files stored elsewhere (~/depot/.../../../../src), so I don't even see a folder in ~ representing my project.

Answer 1

Do the following steps:

• close all the projects in workspace
• close Eclipse
• move the directory .metadata from ~ to ~/workspace
• open Eclipse and when prompted for the workspace selection set it to ~/workspace

Answer 2

On Windows 8 I did this:

1. Closed All of the projects in Eclipse
2. Closed Eclipse
3. Physically moved the workspace folder to a new location (in my case I put it into c:\projects as I have this backed up).
4. Started Eclipse
5. File > Switch Workspace and selected the new path. Then eclipse restarted itself and all projects showed up.